President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu today paid tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 142nd birth anniversary. President Kovind remembered Sardar Patel as "India's Man of Iron, of Integrity and of Integration" in a tweet he posted after paying floral tribute at Patel Chowk in New Delhi. 

Vice President Naidu, too, paid floral tribute to Sardar Patel, who is credited for ensuring integration of the nation post-Independence.